The Society has a developing research group, and information about both current and previous work may be found in this section.
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20th June "Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2013" |
The Society for Acute Medicine is launching its 2nd National Benchmarking Audit for the 20th of June 2013.
Acute Medical Units (AMUs) manage over half of all adult admissions to hospitals in the United Kingdom and nearly half of these exclusively yet little data is available about the compliance withcare standards.
Aims of SAMBA:
Under the title “A day in the life of the AMU” theSociety of Acute Medicine’s Benchmarking Audit(SAMBA) 2012 set out to:
- collect data on basic quality markers for AMUs.
- assess compliance with key-indicators forseveral conditions
- explore availability of data items required togenerate propensity scores for a national audit andresearch program in Acute Medicine.
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Dear Colleagues,
The research group of the Society for Acute Medicine has met several times and a clear research strategy is beginning to develop. It should be noted that the Society for Acute Medicine is working closely with the Royal College of Physicians London in several areas.
Firstly, the Society has, with the Clinical Effectiveness Unit, developed an organisational questionnaire for acute medical units. The results from the initial pilot for this will be published in Clinical Medicine later this year. Work is ongoing at the moment to progress this review to cover all acute medical units within the UK to provide a greater understanding of the services required and form the basis for a national acute medicine database.
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Effectiveness of acute medical units in hospitals: a systematic review |
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Ian Scott; Louella Vaughan; Derek Bell
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2009 21: 397-407
Here are the free-access links to the online article: Abstract, Full Text, PDF |
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